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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1883
Page
2
A detailed guide urging farmers to maintain diverse vegetable gardens and small fruits, with soil preparation, drainage, and repeated cultivation. It emphasizes dung over artificial manures, soil friability, and air access to roots, plus thinning, weeding, and careful propagation of quince and peach trees using the quince quadricunax spacing.
A lengthy article argues salt can aid soil and plant growth when used with care. It cites experiments showing salt can enrich soil, stimulate life, and improve crops, with cautions about overuse and timing for different soils. It covers methods for application, effects on pests, grafting notes, and practical gardening tips.
A plain account asserts grasses natural or sown promote soil fertility by supplying a natural plant food. The text cites wheat and corn thriving best on grass cover and discusses grass rotation, indigenous grasses like bullalo grass, and observed fertility gains from pastures across North America. It links grass sustenance to manure-like soil enrichment and long-term productivity.
Our veterinary department reports a severe season as lambs suffer parasitic lung infections. Descriptions cover needle shaped worms, chalky nodules in lungs, and eggs of strongylus species. The piece discusses transmission theories, two disease stages, and notes on non hereditary risk and mortality. Prevention centers on fresh pasture and fortified feed. treatment includes inhalations of chlorine gas and turpentine in oil, with iron salts and salt recommended for deworming and overall health.
The article extols quince as an overlooked American fruit noting its culinary uses in preserves marmalades jellies and wine. It describes soil and cultivation tips detailing vigorous growth from cuttings planted in March and fruiting in four to five years with surface-root feeding and manure top dressing aiding development.
Historic overview explains grafting as uniting scion and stock from allied species to perpetuate varieties. It covers stock selection, preparation, tools, and methods for orchardists, noting rapid, cheap grafting boosts modern planting and advising careful stock choice and season.
The article argues colored butter and cheese harm keeping quality and texture. It explains annatto extracts and strong alkalis react with casein and fats, speeding decay and causing mottled surfaces. Potash and soda dissolve coloring, with lye in milk leading to softening and uneven curing in cheese and butter.
Guidance on planting tobacco advises transplant after 100 days, best between May 10 and June 20. It covers seedling handling, planting depth, moisture, dew preservation, and field readiness to prevent stunting and frost risk. It emphasizes rapid planting while dew is present and keeping plants shaded before set, with careful root and stem treatment.
Listings show wholesale prices for ammoniacal materials, dried blood, castor pomace, cottonseed meal, and bone meal, with unit costs per ton or per unit. Key items include Sulphate ammonia 24 to 25 percent at price ranges, Nitrate soda and nitrate potash per pound, and various phosphates and guanos priced per ton.
The article traces U S wheat growth from 1840 to 1880, highlighting rising yields and acreage, regional production breakdowns, export values, and imports during shortages. It notes the vast national impact on global markets, the role of cheap lands, and the future balance between expanding production and international competition driven by rail, innovation, and immigration.
A collection of agrarian observations covers beekeeping shifts by Heddon of Dowagiac Michigan and CU Johnson on raspberry rust control, plus dairy steam and forage methods, tomato ripening in soil quality, suckering in crops, and beef fattening economics with implications for consumer meat quality and farm efficiency.
The report notes North Carolina marketed eighty five thousand tons of commercial fertilizers for tobacco and cotton areas, with the state experiment station analyzing over a thousand samples. It warns against horn, feather, and wool waste in superphosphates, and discusses fertilizer use, weed seeds, cucumber production methods, and butter coloring. It also covers hay drying, pear blight causes, and the profit logic of manure, soil condition, and farm implements for maximizing fertility-based returns.
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